/fɾanˈθes/ ES
/fɾanˈses/ MX
Translation
French
Word origin
From Old French franceis, from Franc ('Frank'), the Germanic people whose name was applied to France and the French language.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- Franc
- English cognates
- French, Frank, frank
Grammar
Examples
Madrid.
My friend is French and lives in Madrid.
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I want to learn French this year.
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French bread is very famous.
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She speaks French better than I do.
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I saw a French film the other night.
Where this fits
Used in
Grammar articles
(9)Spanish Adjective Agreement: Endings, Position, and the Shortened Pre-Nominal Set
Spanish Adjective Suffixes: -oso, -able, -ante, -al (famoso, aceptable, cultural)
Spanish Articles: Definite vs Indefinite, Gender, Number, and When English Doesn't Use One
Spanish Comparatives: más que, menos que, tan como and the Four Irregulars
Conjugating Spanish -ar Verbs in the Present Tense
The Passive se and the Impersonal se in Spanish (se venden casas, se habla español)
The Personal A in Spanish: Why 'Veo a María' but 'Veo la casa'
Spanish Punctuation and Capitalisation: the opening ¿ and ¡, lowercase lunes and español
Verbs with Prepositions in Spanish (Régimen Preposicional): the Fixed Verb + Preposition Pairs
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